On Friday, November 24, 2017, the 4th Annual Black Lives Matter Not Black Friday protest was held at Westlake Park in Seattle. The protest was hosted by the Black Liberation Front Seattle. Protesters gathered together peacefully at Westlake Park and after a brief march returned to link arms in front of the Westlake Center mall blocking one of the entrances to the shopping center. Chanting “black lives, not Black Friday” and "into the streets, out of the stores" they also demanded justice for African Americans killed by police officers, invoking the name of Charleena Lyles who was fatally shot by Seattle police over the summer. The protest offered a stark contrast between the holiday festivities and tree lighting occurring at roughly the same time at Westlake Center. Although demonstrations on Black Friday have become an annual event over the last few years at Westlake this year’s protest was smaller than in the past drawing only a few hundred demonstrators.